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[[Image:Fuente de los Azulejos.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Fuente de los Azulejos rock formation]]

'''Fuente de los Azulejos''' is an unusual rock formation on the island of [[Gran Canaria]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Geology of the Canary Islands - 1st Edition|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-geology-of-the-canary-islands/troll/978-0-12-809663-5|access-date=2021-08-21|website=www.elsevier.com}}</ref> The name literally means "[[fountain]] of tiles", because of the colour of the rocks resembling [[Portugal|Portuguese]] tiles. These colours are caused by the process of [[oxidisation|hydrothermal alteration]]<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2008-10-15|title=Low-temperature hydrothermal alteration of intra-caldera tuffs, Miocene Tejeda caldera, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377027308002163|journal=Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research|language=en|volume=176|issue=4|pages=551–564|doi=10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.05.002|issn=0377-0273|last1=Donoghue |first1=Eleanor |last2=Troll |first2=Valentin R. |last3=Harris |first3=Chris |last4=O'Halloran |first4=Aoife |last5=Walter |first5=Thomas R. |last6=Pérez Torrado |first6=Francisco J. |url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[oxidisation|and oxidisation]].

==References==
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*{{citation|author=Tony Kelly|title=Spiral Guide Gran Canaria|publisher=AA Publishing|year=2003}}

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[[Category:Landforms of Gran Canaria]]


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